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We refined these relationships by leveraging the modified monotonic properties of positive solutions and introduced new conditions that ensure the absence of positive solutions, confirming the oscillation of all solutions to the studied equation. Based on the concept of symmetry between the positive and negative solutions of the studied equation, we obtained criteria that guarantee the oscillation of all solutions by excluding positive solutions only. 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